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6. Only used surgery as a last resort.
7. They were able to reduce pain by using Hashish and Opium.
8. They cauterised wounds.
9. They didn't carry out amputations.
10. They removed bladder stones.
11. They were unable to set broken bones.
12. They were not skilled in eye operations.
13. They opened pharmacies so people could by over the counter drugs.
14. By AD 794 Baghdad had its own paper factory.
15. The work of the likes of Hippocrates was preserved and translated.
16. Rhazes was the first to make the distinction between smallpox and measles.
17. He was a very important doctor.
18. Avicenna wrote a book called "Canon of Medicine"
19. Albucasis was the greatest Arab surgeon.
20. His books contained diagrams and explanations and he said you should never operate unless you are certain you know the cause of pain.
